37770 - Mafie and Antimafia

Learning outcomes

At the end of the course the student achieve a knowledge on:

- the sociological analysis of mafia; interrelations with economic, political and cultural systems; dynamics of the gray zone and the mafia enterprise;

- the fundamental steps and topics who marked the history of sicilian mafia and the evolution of antimafia, from lands' matters to the war by the Corleone members family;

- the context from which investigations who brought to maxiprocesso arose, and the massacre events of 1992/1993;

- the fundamental regulations against mafia phenomenon: L. Rognoni-La Torre; L. 109/1996 on assignment of confiscated estates; the detentive regime provided by art. 41 bis of italian penal code; L. on associates justice; L. 31 march 2010 n. 50 on the creation of National Agency for Administration and management of  confiscated goods; the Antimafia Codex; the investigations organisms.

Course contents

Name of the course: Mafie e antimafia.

Prof. Stefania Pellegrini

Discipline Sector: IUS 20 Philosophy of law

Learning objectives: The course aim to provide the students a scientific knowledge and a social conscience of phenomena so deeply rooted as pernicious as the mafia.

Cfu: the course give title to obtain 7 formative credits

 

The course will be structured in two parts: the first of 20 hours will consist of classroom lectures; the second part of 28 hours will consist of a seminar laboratory with the direct participation of person involved in social and judicial antimafia.

 

During the first part the mafia topics will be treated in a triple perspective:

1) Sociological:

the sociological analysis of mafia; interrelations with economic, political and cultural systems; dynamics of the gray zone and the mafia enterprise;

2) Historical:

a)     from a social-historic point of view the focus will be on the social conditions who further the born and the expansion of the mafia phenomena in the different geographical context: cosa nostra in Sicily, ndrangheta in Calabria, camorra in Campania, sacra corona unita in Puglia. Moreover will be esamined the conditions who brought those phenomena to non traditional areas and the relations with italian mafia and foreigner one.

b)      from a sociological-legal point of view the phenomenon of the mafia will be treated with the attempt to trace an evolution from which will be possible under stand how mafia had grown as a ferocious criminal reality.

 

3)      Legal:

a)      the main evolutions of the antimafia regulations will be analyze as instrument of repression of the organized criminality

b)      the normative instruments who provide a promotional function as the regulation for associates justice and that on social availment of confiscated goods. 

During the second part the major representatives of social and judicial antimafia will be invited  to have a lecture with the aim to promote a discussion and stimulate an effective comprehesion of the mafia phenomenon.

The lecturers will treate of topics related to business of cosa nostra, ndrangheta, camorra, sacra corona unita, the relation between mafia and religion, the extortion phenomena, the topic of management of confiscated goods, the international contrast to the mafia.

        

  

Readings/Bibliography

Students of Law

A dispensation related to the topics treated in the first part of the course will be  published on the website http://campus.unibo.it/

In addition the students had to choose one among the following publications:

 - N. Gratteri, A. Nicaso, Fratelli di sangue, Mondadori, Milano 2009

- A. Dino, La mafia devota. Chiesa, religione, cosa nostra, Laterza, Roma/Bari 2008.

- N. Dalla Chiesa, L'impresa mafiosa. Tra capitalismo violento e controllo sociale, Cavallotti university Press, Milano, 2012

- A. Donati, Lo Sport del doping. Chi lo combatte, chi lo subisce, Edizioni Gruppo Abele, 2012.

- P. Davigo, Il sistema della corruzione, Laterza, 2017.

- N. Dalla Chiesa, Passaggio a Nord. La colonizzazione mafiosa, Edizioni Gruppo Abele, 2016.

 

For more information see the following link http://parlamento17.camera.it/156. 

Indications for foreigner students who participate at LLP mobility programme

For Erasmus-Socrates students from Faculties of Law tthe program of exam is formed by:

- dispensation of Prof. Pellegrini, downloadable at the end of the course at http://campus.cib.unibo.it 

- Cose di cosa nostra, book-interview of Marcelle Padovani with Giovanni Falcone, Rizzoli, Milano, 1991.

Students who come from Political Sciences and need to reach 10 formative credits have to write a thesis treating one of the topics of the course, and deliver it to Prof. Pellegrini at less a week before the day of the exam. The topic is to be established in accordance with Prof. Pellegrini.

Teaching methods

The first part of the course will be held through the direct classroom. Original  testimonies of defendants and justice associates and short videos of the most significative events (such as Portella della Ginestra, Capaci and Via D'Amelio massacres) will be shown; slides projection.

 

The second part will consist of the lecture followed by debate in which lecturer discuss with the students of the problematic issues of mafia and antimafia topics. Students are facilitated and promoted to participate at the debate thanks to the acquisition of cognitive instruments realized during the first part of the course.

The course is realized trough classroom lecture, during which students are stimulated to participate through discussion and interaction with the lecturers of the seminar laboratory.

The chair organize educational trips in social and territorial contexts most exposed to the phenomenon of organized crime (Sicily, Calabria and Campania).

 

During the teaching activity, students will be invited through a distribution list dedicated to lectures, debates and book presentations concerning the subjects of the course.

Assessment methods

The assesment will be realize through an interview upon the dispensation and the book chosen by the student.

The final exam is meant to test the students' knowledge of text, their language, reasoning and argumentation skills shown during the interview.

Registration will be only through the informatic system AlmaEsami.

For the assignment of the dissertation thesis go to the office hours of Prof. Pellegrini.

Teaching tools

The first part of the course will be held through the direct classroom. Original short videos of the most significative events and testimonies of justice associates will be shown; slides projection.

The second part will consist of the lecture and following debate with lecturer.

Use of distribution lists for communication and dissemination of events / initiatives concerning the object of the course.

Office hours

See the website of Stefania Pellegrini